EBSCO papers describe results of academic information supply chain survey - November 16, 2012
Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Information Services Europe has released a series of five papers reporting the results of a survey on the future of the academic information supply chain. The papers reportedly cover diverse subjects and reveal some surprising insights into possible future roles… Read More
SciBX publishes ‘Roadmap to Innovation’ on macrocycles and constrained peptides - November 16, 2012
SciBX: Science-Business eXchange has announced the publication of "Bringing Macrocycles Full Circle," a Roadmap to Innovation in the field of macrocycles and constrained peptides. This is being published in the November 15 edition of SciBX, a joint venture between BioCentury Publications and Nature Publishing Group (NPG)… Read More
Semantico Strategy Director Rob Virkar-Yates to chair ALPSP seminar - November 16, 2012
UK-based online publishing services provider Semantico Ltd has announced that it is working with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), an international association for scholarly and professional publishers, on a seminar, entitled 'Ignore your authors at your peril. Strategies and tactics for building… Read More
New streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education now available from Alexander Street Press - November 16, 2012
Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press, US, has announced that Dental Education in Video, a new streaming video resource for dentistry and oral health education, is now available for instant online access. The first release of this collection contains more than 170 high-resolution videos - including… Read More
IOP Publishing continues its support for the MathJax project - November 16, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher IOP Publishing (IOP) continues to support the MathJax project as a MathJax Supporter, demonstrating its commitment to partnering with the scientific community. MathJax was first implemented on IOP Publishing's journals platform IOPscience in September 2011, enabling researchers to clearly view mathematics on… Read More
ORCID and CrossRef collaborate to solve ambiguous author names problem in scholarly content - November 15, 2012
Two not-for profit organisations, ORCID and CrossRef, have collaborated to solve the problem of ambiguous author names in scholarly content. ORCID began assigning unique identifiers to researchers in October. As part of the ORCID Registry, individuals can search the metadata from CrossRef… Read More